Debian Security Advisory DSA 3017-1 (php-cas - Security Update) Network Vulnerability

Summary

Marvin S. Addison discovered that Jasig phpCAS, a PHP library for the CAS authentication protocol, did not encode tickets before adding them to an URL, creating a possibility for cross site scripting.

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-4+deb7u1. The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your php-cas packages.

Insight

This package is a PEAR installable library for using a Central Authentication Service.

Affected

php-cas on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

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